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PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Action‐Oriented
Michael WinklemanNothing lasts forever. Change is gonna come. Those were the days.
SHORT TAKES
Bristol VossDrug tests, credit checks, background investigations, lie detector tests—these are just some of the things that today's employers go through to get hard‐working, clean‐living…
CLIPPINGS
Even if you didn't go to business school, sooner or later you'd pick up the lesson of the railroad tycoons. They figured they had it made, what with their rails criss‐crossing the…
Global Policy: The Orderless Economy
David A. HeenanWhat ever happened to the borderless economy? That notion, advanced a few years ago by the Japanese strategist Kenichi Ohmae, suggested that space‐age technology would integrate…
Research & Development: Plagiarism‐Driven Business Strategy
E. Ted PrinceCaution: Don't denigrate the derivative. So‐called plagiarism, and other activities‐that go under various rubrics— such as cloning, reverse engineering, emulating, creatively…
TIME TO DO OR DIE
Michael WinklemanThe ‘90s aren't a bad dream. And they're not the 70s redux, with a go‐go decade waiting around the corner. Survival will take pacing—and planning. The alternative's too ghastly to…
DO YOU KNOW ME?
Bristol VossCORPORATE STRATEGISTS ARE NOT CELEBRITIES. They're rarely household names. But, increasingly, it's their work that is shaping America's corporations—allowing them to compete in a…
RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU'RE SURE STRATEGY is Being Taught in American BUSINESS SCHOOL
Lori BongiornoBusiness schools are now facing the same type of radical restructuring as the corporation their students study. How often is strategy a part of the curricular mix?
HIGH NOON FOR THE RISING SUN
Steven SchlosssteinHidden liabilities, now coming to light, are putting a different spin on Japan's reputation as an arrogant competitor and forcing a painful structural transformation.
JAPAN: MODEL, MYTH, OR MISTAKE?
Bristol VossIt's time we burst our own “bubble” view of Japanese business techniques: Everything they do is neither automatically right, nor comprehensively wrong. They are, well, uniquely…
RISING TO THE OCCASION
Bristol VossThe window has opened: Now is the time to do business with Japan. The major hurdles companies will (ace are not any formal legal restrictions, but the complexity and high cost of…
Case Study: Deming's Luster Dims at Florida Power & Light
Betsy WiesendangerIT READS LIKE A BAD JOKE: HOW MANY STEPS DOES IT TAKE TO MOVE A water cooler? If you worked at Florida Power & Light three years ago, your answer would have been: It takes seven…
Out‐of‐Pocket: Brain Gain
Meryl Davids, Rebecca J. MickeyBy the halfway All‐Star break in 1991, Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz was badly slumping at 2–11. Then sports psychologist Jack Llewellyn got hold of him, and Smoltz exploded…
The Last Word: Japan: Behold the Sun
Sam KusumotoJapan: The land, the myth, the legend. Hondas. Karoke bars. Kimonos. Ancestor worship. Total quality management. Golf. Kabuki. Sushi. What's the real story? What's underneath the…
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